Summer 2017

Ocean Tracking Network and Big Spruce Brewing (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) have partnered to releaseTag! You’re It!, a special-edition conservation collabeeration that celebrates oceans, good beer, and cool partnerships. Fifty cents from every sale will fund ocean research and conservation. The first of two batches of Tag! You’re It! launches in August and will be available in stores across Nova Scotia. Learn more.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Ocean Tracking Network invites you to submit a manuscript to a special issue of CJFAS. The invitation is open to anyone using OTN acoustic infrastructure globally or using OTN funding globally.

Dalhousie PhD student, Xavier Bordeleau, has been researching Atlantic salmon under OTN’s Atlantic salmon tracking project for the past three years. Recently, OTN sat down with him to discuss how the data he and his colleagues are collecting will provide an improved understanding of salmon habitat use. Xavier also spoke about the factors affecting Atlantic salmon survival in rivers throughout the Bras d’Or Lakes system in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Read the full interview and photo highlights here.

OTN-supported shark tracking in the Bahamas and Florida

Dr. Neil Hammerschlag, a marine ecologist based at the University of Miami, is tracking sharks through OTN’s acoustic infrastructure in the Bahamas and off the coast of Miami, Florida. In this article, OTN explores two of his projects that track tiger, great hammerhead, nurse, blacktip, and bull sharks.

Update: OTN and Dalhousie gliders search for endangered right whales

OTN is deploying Slocum gliders in support of MEOPAR’s Whales Habitat and Listening Experiment (WHaLE). In the summer of 2016, new information collected suggests that right whales are migrating to the Gaspe peninsula, possibly in search of food. The experiment continues over the summer. Read the full update.

OTN researcher Dr. Nigel Hussey was part of a team of researchers that has captured the first footage of narwhals using their tusks to hunt. The aerial drone footage from Tremblay Sound, Nunavut, shows narwhals stunning fish with a slap of their tusks then eating them near the surface if the water.